AmigaDOS 1.2 Gamma Development Disks

[RuneRider]

I recently picked up some Amiga hardware and software for my collection which included some very interesting disks. They appear to be development disks for AmigaDOS 1.2. At the suggestion of Greg at Workbench Nostalgia I'm posting images here to see what can be found out about this set.

If you know anything about these, let me know.

[Jope]

We need disk images :-D Are the floppies for the SAGE system perhaps? These ought to be dumped with a kryoflux.

[lesta_smsc]

"Not to be copied without expressed written consent"

Who owns the rights to these?

[AmigaHope]

Originally Posted by lesta_smsc

"Not to be copied without expressed written consent"

Who owns the rights to these?

At this point, who knows? The rights got shifted around a lot after the Gateway/Amiga Inc. buyout.

As far as who cares though, it would be Cloanto, as they are the only active licensor. They don't own it, per se, but they do own a license to distribute all old versions of AmigaOS 3.1 and earlier. Cloanto do own all the Amiga trademarks/marketing related materials.

Some of the IP rights probably went to Acer when they bought Gateway.

That said there's almost certainly no harm in releasing it. It's a curio that doesn't really hurt Cloanto's bottom line (in fact Cloanto will probably snap it up and include it in their collection), and the actual owners will not sue.

[lesta_smsc]

Originally Posted by AmigaHope

That said there's almost certainly no harm in releasing it. It's a curio that doesn't really hurt Cloanto's bottom line (in fact Cloanto will probably snap it up and include it in their collection), and the actual owners will not sue.

It would be better to have an agreement with Cloanto that they could have the images provided this is released to the community as well. If not, neither benefit.

[Olaf Barthel]

Originally Posted by Jope

We need disk images :-D Are the floppies for the SAGE system perhaps?

I think that's unlikely given that the Amiga 1000 hardware at the time (1985) was already being used, and the software development work being done at the time would use Sun workstations. They had already left the SAGE-II behind.

The 5.25" disks are likely to be used for the MS-DOS based cross development systems and include the linker library and header files for the Lattice 'C' 3 compiler. Companies such as Electronic Arts, Inc. used the MS-DOS cross-compiler because it was much cheaper than developing on a Sun workstation.

Given the time frame (1986) and this being the Gamma release (as in Alpha, Beta, Gamma) I reckon that this material would be used for developers to test if their software and hardware still worked with Kickstart/Workbench 1.2

[AmigaHope]

Originally Posted by Olaf Barthel

I think that's unlikely given that the Amiga 1000 hardware at the time (1985) was already being used, and the software development work being done at the time would use Sun workstations. They had already left the SAGE-II behind.

The 5.25" disks are likely to be used for the MS-DOS based cross development systems and include the linker library and header files for the Lattice 'C' 3 compiler. Companies such as Electronic Arts, Inc. used the MS-DOS cross-compiler because it was much cheaper than developing on a Sun workstation.

Given the time frame (1986) and this being the Gamma release (as in Alpha, Beta, Gamma) I reckon that this material would be used for developers to test if their software and hardware still worked with Kickstart/Workbench 1.2

"Gamma" being another term for "release candidate", it could well turn out to be 99.9999% identical to the public release of 1.2

[RuneRider]

Originally Posted by Jope

We need disk images :-D Are the floppies for the SAGE system perhaps? These ought to be dumped with a kryoflux.

I'll be archiving these disks as soon as I can. I don't know what the 5.25" disks are for. I was hoping for input on that.